Kathmandu: Nepal’s President Ramchandra Paudel has been discharged from a hospital in New Delhi after undergoing treatment for a chest-related ailment and he will return to Kathmandu on Sunday night, the President’s Office said. Paudel, 78, was airlifted to India on April 19 for treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, (AIIMS), New Delhi,…
Islamabad: Pakistan President Dr Arif Alvi on Sunday returned a bill to the parliament about changes in the anti-corruption laws with observation that a similar previous amendment was challenged in the Supreme Court and was still sub-judice. The bill called the National Accountability (Amendment) Bill, 2023 was passed earlier this month by the parliament and it…
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday sidestepped a query about the possibility of contesting the next year’s Lok Sabha poll from his pocket borough Nalanda. The JD (U) supreme leader was an MP from the seat until he resigned in 2005 to assume the highest seat of power in the state. His party, nonetheless,…
Gonda (UP): Embattled WFI chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on Sunday praised Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav for not associating himself with the ongoing protest by top wrestlers of the country, saying Yadav was “standing with the truth”. Singh is in the eye of a storm after the grapplers levelled sexual harassment…
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday slammed the makers of ‘The Kerala Story’ film, saying they were taking up the Sangh Parivar propaganda of projecting the state as a centre of religious extremism by raising the issue of ‘love jihad’ — a concept rejected by the courts, probe agencies and even the Union Home…
New Delhi: India brought home another batch of 229 people on Sunday under its mission to evacuate stranded Indians from violence-hit Sudan. The fresh batch of evacuees arrived in Bengaluru, a day after 365 people returned from the African country to Delhi. “#OperationKaveri One more flight brings back 229 passengers to Bengaluru,” External Affairs Minister S…
Ludhiana (Punjab): Eleven people died after inhaling toxic gas in the city’s thickly-populated Giaspura area on Sunday, police said. Four more people, who were taken ill, were undergoing treatment at a hospital, they said. The source of the leakage and the type of the gas are yet to be ascertained, they added. However, Ludhiana Deputy Commissioner…
New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will hand over a fast patrol vessel and a landing craft to the Maldives as India’s “gift” during his visit to the island nation from May 1 to 3. The defence ministry said this on Sunday, noting that Singh’s visit to the Maldives will be an “important landmark” in…
New Delhi: In the 100th episode of “Mann ki Baat”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the radio broadcast is an expression of the feelings of crores of Indians and it has ensured he is never cut-off from people. Modi said “Mann ki Baat” gave him a solution to connect with the people and was…
Hyderabad: The stoic silence of Telangana state IAS officers association over the release of the Convict and former MP Anand Mohan in their colleague’s murder, by the Nitish government in Bihar, raises many doubts. Interestingly their colleague association in the neighboring Andhra Pradesh has issued a statement condemning the decision. The T-IAS officer’s decision to…
